Alert archive / Illinois / 1989
Weather alerts in Illinois, August 1989
18 weather alerts in August 1989, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1989. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 18
- Warnings
- 18
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 5, 19897 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 10:46 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | DVN | Whiteside | 2 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:26 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | LOT | Cook, DuPage, Kane | 4 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILX | DeKalb | 3 hr |
| Aug 4, 7:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Jo Daviess | 57 min |
| Aug 4, 8:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Carroll | 41 min |
| Aug 4, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Carroll, Ogle | 45 min |
| Aug 4, 9:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Whiteside | 15 min |
| Aug 4, 11:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Stephenson, Winnebago | 61 min |
| Aug 5, 1:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LOT | Cook, Will | 63 min |
| Aug 5, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DVN | Rock Island | 46 min |
| Aug 5, 10:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Coles, Moultrie, Shelby | 57 min |
| Aug 5, 11:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Clark, Cumberland | 55 min |
| Aug 5, 11:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Crawford, Jasper | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 12:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IND | Lawrence | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 6:21 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | IND | Clay | 2 hr |
| Aug 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Pulaski | 45 min |
| Aug 29, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 30 min |
| Aug 31, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILX | Champaign, Vermilion | 61 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 12 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Whiteside County2
- Cook County2
- Carroll County2
- Champaign County2
- Vermilion County2
- DuPage County1
- Kane County1
- DeKalb County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Ogle County1
- Stephenson County1
- Winnebago County1
- Will County1
- Rock Island County1
- Coles County1
- Moultrie County1
- Shelby County1
- Clark County1
- Cumberland County1
- Crawford County1
- Jasper County1
- Lawrence County1
- Clay County1
- Pulaski County1
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.